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SE: Change very noise warn message to warn_once

Review Request #909 - Created Nov. 16, 2011 and submitted

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Ali Saidi
gem5
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ali, gblack, nate, stever
SE: Change very noise warn message to warn_once

This warn message gets called a lot when executing with O3 and there is speculation.

   
Posted (Nov. 18, 2011, 1 p.m.)
I thought about making this a warn_once, but I don't think it's a good idea since it may warn with one address and actually cause a fault (which was why Lisa added it) for a different address much later. In that case it would just be confusing the situation, not adding useful information. In my opinion we should get rid of it entirely and find a better way to help people discover what's going on with faults in SE, maybe by just changing what's printed when a memory fault happens.